§ Sir J. REMNANTasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Foundling Estates, Limited, have submitted plans for building on the site of the Foundling Hospital, including a new road which will encroach on the Mecklenburgh and Brunswick Garden Squares; that the proposed road will cut through the garden enclosures of Caroline Place and Lansdowne Place; and that buildings on the north frontage of Guilford Street will involve the removal of large portions of these two garden enclosures; when he proposes to resume the public inquiry into the London County Council 2073W Holborn and St. Pancras town-planning scheme, adjourned on 3rd February, 1928; and will he exercise his powers to restrain the proposed encroachment upon the garden squares and the destruction of garden enclosures?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI have not details of the submitted plans, but the approval of plans for building on the site of the Foundling Hospital rests with the London County Council, and I have no power to prohibit the approval. I have communicated with the London County Council on the town planning proposals and the resumption of the inquiry depends on whether the council decide to proceed with the town-planning scheme so far as it applies to the site of the Foundling Hospital.